The much-revered dean of admissions for M.I.T. resigned yesterday. She was extremely popular, and really focused on the stress that high school students experience while applying to college - she argued that instead of only looking at students' accomplishments, admissions officers should look at students' overall personalities.
This argument looks really bad now. Her resignation was due to falsehoods on her resume, namely, degrees from three schools (Albany Medical College, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) that she does not hold. Now, technically, she did not need those degrees for the entry-level position she held when she first arrived at M.I.T., but with all her promotions over the past 28 years and receiving M.I.T.'s highest honor for administrators, the Excellence Award for Leading Change, some of those references probably should have checked out. Just a thought.
But it really is sad. She was a respected member of the administration, and almost all of the students knew her. And she did calm a lot of students (and let's face it, probably some parents too) about the scary process of applying to Big Important Colleges. She did good, and it's a damn shame that all this means she can no longer do her job.
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